Sentence examples for grim alternative from inspiring English sources

The grim alternative is an internationally backed escalation that could leave Syria and the region in permanent ruins, with likely spillover much closer to home.

"The grim alternative affects all nations — more severe storms, more famine and floods, new waves of refugees, coastlines that vanish, oceans that rise," Mr. Obama said.

Because the grim alternative – still visibly present in the relationship with countries such as Bahrain and Saudi Arabia – is a return to a kind of Kissinger-style policy realism that turns a blind eye to abuse.

But now the Islamic Mediterranean world was shaken by a revolutionary and fanatical Islamic sect, the Almohads (Arabic: al-Muwaḥḥidūn, "the Unitarians"), who captured Córdoba in 1148, leaving the Jewish community faced with the grim alternative of submitting to Islam or leaving the city.

As all the efforts of the Japanese army's best engineering brains to stem the relentless tide have been of no avail, the Japanese high command is now faced with the grim alternative of precipitate retreat, saving what can be saved, or seeing one of the best-equipped armies that has taken the field in recent years disappear in a gigantic trough of water and mud.

Would I have died?" But his focus on the grim alternative outcomes is less about his own fate and more about his chance to affect that of others like him.

So Washington is left with two grim alternatives: It can keep sending F.B.I. agents to aggressively pursue Qaeda members in the border area, risking a dispute with an elected government.

The same could happen in Korea.It sounds grim, but the alternative is grimmer.

If the international community mobilises political will behind the new architecture of water and peace, the alternative grim scenario of water war can still be averted before the world crosses the tipping point.

Despite the fact that the epicentre of the ominous blast pointed in all directions to a remote research facility manned by Aum Shinrikyo, the notorious Japanese death-cult noted for its attempts at mining uranium and its grim obsession with alternative weapons technology, the whole event was eventually shrugged off and forgotten about.

The alternative is grim.